WOODS HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D.

Author of "Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology," "Instinct and Health," etc., etc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York Polyclinic, late Lecturer in Comparative Pathology, London Medical Graduates College and University of Buffalo

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press
Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908 AND 1909, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1909
FIFTH IMPRESSION

By Woods Hutchinson

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CONTENTS

I.The Body-Republic and its Defense[1]
II.Our Legacy of Health: the Power of Heredity in the Prevention of Disease[31]
III.The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor can tell from Appearances[55]
IV.Colds and how to catch Them[83]
V.Adenoids, or Mouth-Breathing: their Cause and their Consequences[103]
VI.Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. I[123]
VII.Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. II[140]
VIII.The Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia[174]
IX.The Natural History of Typhoid Fever[198]
X.Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch[222]
XI.The Herods of Our Day: Scarlet Fever, Measles, and Whooping-Cough[243]
XII.Appendicitis, or Nature's Remnant Sale[267]
XIII.Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness; the greatest Foe of the Pioneer[289]
XIV.Rheumatism: what it Is, and particularly what it Isn't[311]
XV.Germ-Foes that follow the Knife, or Death under the Finger-Nail[331]
XVI.Cancer, or Treason in the Body-State[350]
XVII.Headache: the most useful Pain in the World[367]
XVIII.Nerves and Nervousness[387]
XIX.Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind affects the Body[411]
Index[439]